NCLIS honors libraries for promoting healthy lifestyles

Information Outlook, Sept, 2004

Libraries and other information organizations in 37 states have won the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science 2004 NCLIS Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Awards.

The new awards are designed to highlight libraries that do the most to promote a healthy lifestyle. NCLIS administered the award, providing overall direction, with a task force of NCLIS Commissioners volunteering to organize the process and judge the entries. State library agencies made the nominations.

The winning organizations are:

* Lister Hill Medical Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative and the Harrison Regional Library System, Alabama

* Arizona Health Sciences Library

* Denver Public Library

* Greenwich (Connecticut) Library

* The Delaware Academy of Medicine Lewis B. Flinn Library

* Palm Beach County (Florida) Library System

* Georgia Coalition of Regional and Academic Libraries

* Hawaii Medical Library

* Kootenai Medical Center DeArmond Consumer Health Library, Idaho

* Blessing Health Professions Library, Illinois

* Indiana Senior Health Information Center, St. Vincent Garceau Library

* Archie Dykes Health Sciences Library, University of Kansas Medical Center

* Hart County (Kentucky) Public Library

* Beauregard Parish (Louisiana) Library

* Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Libraries' Health Information Center

* The Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School

* Munson Medical Center Department of Library Services, Michigan

* McGoogan Library of Medicine, Nebraska

* Henderson District (Nevada) Public Libraries

* Gale Medical Library, New Hampshire

* Jersey Shore University Medical Center Booker Health Sciences Library

* University of New Mexico Center for Development and Disability LINC: Library and Information Network for the Community

* Crandall (New York) Public Library

* Eastern Oklahoma District Library System

* PeaceHealth Oregon Region Eugene Public Library

* Cumberland County (Pennsylvania) Library System

* Providence (Rhode Island) Veterans Affairs Medical Center Library

* Medical University of South Carolina Library

* Rapid City (South Dakota) Regional Hospital Health Information Center

* University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library Consumer and Patient Information Service

* Biblioteca Las Americas/Med High and the UTHSCSA RAHC Library, Texas

* Utah Consumer Health Information Initiative Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Outreach Program

* Ilsley (Vermont) Public Library

* Virignia NLM/ACPF Project

* University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries

* Calumet County (Wisconsin) Public Libraries

* Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee of the Wyoming State Legislature

Award winners were chosen based on the overall success of the library's consumer health information services program, with particular emphasis on the program's potential impact, innovativeness, and transferability. Winning entries will be compiled into a report of best practices in consumer health information distribution done through libraries that NCLIS will publish later this year.